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What brand of press is it? Here one only sees Heidelbergs... Friends of mi,ne re-opened a papermill in central France, annex printing presses museum, and they have one that has to be set in motion with leg-force, 19th century. Imo, nothing ever surpassed the quality of typo: crispness, even a slight imprint, goldprint, even perforating and cutting half through adhesive papers, envelopes,...and fonts (mostly Italian) that have never been surpassed by puter fonts.
Aahhh...and each letter safely packed in cotton wool so as not to damage it...wedding fonts, even wooden blocks for posters,...the smell of ink, and the monoitonous noise of the press. No hurry, take it easy. Compare that with a four head heidelberg that is cleaned during the night by a specialist team because each minute of the printer costs money and has to be used for printing...Stress, stress and even more stress because of impossible investments.
Giime a Tee, gimme a Y, gimme a Pee, gimme a Ooo. What does that spell? TYPO!
Aahhh...and each letter safely packed in cotton wool so as not to damage it...wedding fonts, even wooden blocks for posters,...the smell of ink, and the monoitonous noise of the press. No hurry, take it easy. Compare that with a four head heidelberg that is cleaned during the night by a specialist team because each minute of the printer costs money and has to be used for printing...Stress, stress and even more stress because of impossible investments.
Giime a Tee, gimme a Y, gimme a Pee, gimme a Ooo. What does that spell? TYPO!
British Thompson Auto-Platen. Made circa 1950 and still going strong!Erik said:
Cotton wool? Nope, each letter sits in its compartment and all the blocks are laid out either in large trays or on the galley rack.
Here's an example of a type case (the empty compartments should hold spaces, but I haven't finished putting everything in):
I was coming to that. Mostly what are called "Draw Tickets" or "Raffle Tickets". There's little or no call nowadays for letterheads, dance tickets and the like because everyone and their grannie can do them on the home computer. But the raffle ticket needs numbering and perforating and then stapled in books or five or ten - which is a bit beyond the home computer ... If you haven't come across the raffle ticket, it's a way of making money for schools, clubs and churches etc - several prizes offered and the winners chosen by drawing the ticket stubs.wbiss said:Fascinating Shaun!
What type of printing do you mostly do?
And here's the second picture - just in case you didn't believe the comment about the mouse - all the type moved, by the mouse, to form a nest and bits of paper shredded to line it. Not just one case - there were nut shells in another and when we had to move the type cabinets we took the drawers out and the mouse nipped out and ran!
Fragile fonts - yes, especially those with overhanging kerns. I have Palace Script, for example, but it's cast on a sloping body. With the others you just have to be careful how you place them back into the compartments - can't just chuck them in!
For the really delicate types I wouldn't use the big press - all the wedding jobs were done on the hand press (Adana 8"x5" table-top), with care!
For the really delicate types I wouldn't use the big press - all the wedding jobs were done on the hand press (Adana 8"x5" table-top), with care!
sfm said:Alistair said:Very cool!sorry to get wayyy off subject, but my eyes seemed to automatically lock onto your sig.... 1024 ram? :| Is that possible? with a laptop? :| whatever, im confused
2 x 512mb ram = 1024
it's okay we know you do maths next year
sfm
I know that sue, but some computer's can't hold that much (they wont use that much) even if you can fit two 512mb ram chips in there
Alistair said:Very cool!
Powermac 7300 is a desktop machine; date 1997. Started with 16Mb, but I got them to fit 64. Built up over the years... The 7300 is supposed to take maximum of 512 (8 slots x 64Mb) but.... it will take (unsupported by Apple) 1024 (8 slots of 128Mb). Eventually I may get something to run OS X (maybe the G5DP...) but the 7300 has done me well so far. It now has xlr8 500 processor instead of the original Apple 166, a Firewire card (for the scanner) and a USB card (for the new printer). I bought it because it was the only one I could afford that was upgradeable (and because my wife said she thought one computer would do, wouldn't it? (Rhetorical question on her part).
Should last. My brother has some old LCIIIs in his office that still work. "You give them a job and then leave them humming away in the corner getting on with it." Never chuck nothing out if it ain't broke!